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#64273 04/07/02 06:04 PM
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while looking about for a thread to bring back which hadn't gone all self-referential and/or pear-shaped, I was reminded how often haggis has been brought up here (no pun) in the past. in this happy vein I give you:

From "The Poems of Ewen McTeagle"

Horace

Much to his Mum and Dad's dismay,
Horace ate himself one day.
He didn't stop to say his grace,
He just sat down and ate his face.
"We can't have this!" his Dad declared,
"If that lad's ate, he should be shared."
But even as he spoke they saw
Horace eating more and more:
First his legs and then his thighs,
His arms, his nose, his hair, his eyes...

"Stop him someone!" Mother cried,
"Those eyeballs would be better fried!"
But all too late, for they were gone,
And he had started on his d___.
"Oh! foolish child!", the father mourns
"You could have deep-fried that with prawns,
Some parsley and some tartar sauce."
But H. was on his second course:
His liver and his lights, and lung,
His ears, his neck, his tongue...

"To think I raised him from the cot
And now he's going to scoff the lot!"
His Mother cried, "What shall we do?
What's left won't even make a stew..."
And as she wept, her son was seen
To eat his head, his heart, his spleen.
And there he lay, a boy no more,
Just a stomach on the floor...
Nonetheless, since it was his,
They ate it - that's what haggis is.

- Monty Python Calendar - April 2002


(ecch homo)

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The Scots are derided for conspicuous underconsumption. Surely Horaace's parents could not be accused of that.


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I did a Yahoo search on disgusting foods (3 hits!), and found "liver and lights" listed under England.

What are these things from Norway, please? (hi, m & s!) Lutefisk, Gravlax Litefisk has been on here before, but I forgot what it is.

Oh, barf, look at this:
Mediterranean: Sheep's head. The whole thing, cooked and skinned. Includes the eyeballs.


Here's one for you, wofa.:
Central Asia: Kumiss (Fermented Mare's Milk)


Bingley, have you...never mind, I don't want to know! Indonesia: Blachan, Dog-Meat Restaurants, Bats

Anna, what is Brazil: Gari , please?


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Another disgusting food-thread ...
Oh, sorry, this is a disgusting-food thread.

[de gustibus non est disputandum]

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Gravlax is absolutely delectable Jackie!
It is very simply sugar-cured salmon, which is served sliced very thinly with a minimum of accompaniments/fuss. It is very similar to smoked salmon (looks the same) but has a more subtle flavour. Yum!


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I searched for "Salmon Gravlax" and hit a dozen recipes. It does sound like a delicacy.


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disgusting foods

There's been rumors for years that the Mob owns meat-packing plants around Newark in North Jersey, and uses them very efficiently. Find any Jimmy Hoffa in your head cheese? Is that five o'clock shadow on your salami? Needless to say, head cheese never made my menu after I heard that.

Your Happy Epeolatrist!

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Anybody for a Sweeny Todd meat pie? with fingernails?


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Now that's funny.* In Brazil cassava (manioc) is more commonly called mandioca. Gari is the West African (Yoruba? Nigeria?) name for it, though there are so many descendants of slaves in Brazil it doesn't surprise me that the word is still in use there. Anyway, it's a root vegetable that's ground up into a flour then mixed with water and boiled to make a grits-like paste. It's not really disgusting, I don't think, just sort of tasteless (to me). It's a staple for many people: a hardy tuber, it can be left in the ground for many months after ripening, so there's a sort of built-in protection against famine for a season.

Will wonders never cease? I'm contributing to a food thread!!

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*funny peculiar, not funny ha-ha

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Dear tsuwm,

Thanks for that little poem--it was delightful to read and even more delightful to imagine in the mind's eye!

It reminded me (in a strange way) of the little boy in "Monster's Ball" who was so determined to eat candy bars and other junk food--and he ended up dead, too, but not humorously so.

I've mentioned this before, but I heard that Scottish cuisine (odd alliance of two words, those two preceding!) is "based on a dare": "I dare you to eat this!" "I dare YOU to eat THAT!"

Bloated regurgitation,
WonderWolfer


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